tidy sum
Example Sentences
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It’s a tidy sum that implies it took Musk less than seven seconds to earn what the average U.S. household makes in a year.
From Barron's • Dec. 23, 2025
That’s quite a nice tidy sum, but all the reasons you separated from your wife will still be there when you arrive in Colombia.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 7, 2025
It's not the first banana-as-art that sold for a tidy sum.
From Salon • Dec. 19, 2024
Despite the market tumult since the bank’s collapse, those investments could collect a tidy sum, if the F.D.I.C. can find buyers, and defray the cost of paying out depositors.
From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2023
The game-keeper was not miserly, but he dearly loved handling gold, and Abel surmised he had saved a "tidy sum."
From The Rider in Khaki A Novel by Gould, Nat
